No, they are not.

But those benefiting (neg. committee, ExCo, ExCo chair and the company) by not having anything compelling them to finish seems to be his point. We seem to be holding a pair of deuces and throwing in money to the pot like we have a full house. Essentially hoping no one will take a job at Atlas and encouraging those here to leave as our sole leverage.

Polar did two strikes in the past that only brought them to parity with the one Atlas contract that was concluded prior to our merger. Kirchner's own words if you want to go back an listen to the recording of the call on the union site. Polar hung their hat on one issue that dragged out the merger and a new contract for almost ten years for the Atlas guys. Required a decertification of ALPA to get it done and moving on.

HERE IS A PDF of the latest LM-2.

You can use ctrl F, insert your company name to find what the union pays your company for flight pay loss, names of the legal staff to see what they were paid, individuals, etc. Atlas spent about 1.1 million in 2016 on FPL alone. This year it was 1.272 million even after a credit of 200 hrs a month to us for negotiations by the company under the framework agreement. The above LM-2 is for 1224 2017 in whole so you can find Southern stuff there also. I thought the FPL amendment would slow the spending down so they could keep up appearances to the membership, but it looks like they are grabbing what they can before the amendment is finalized into the bylaws and they go out the door. I.E. Kirchner leaves soon due to retirement (although he was approved by the eboard to finish his term despite his mandatory retirement).

So I can see his despair and have experienced it before myself. Maybe if our newer representatives reviewed what actually happened in the past (not the rewritten stuff by Kirchner) we might get ahead of the game some. Unfortunately, we seem destined to repeat history.